2.5.0 Release

Changes

• Wheels contain PROJ version is 6.3.1
• Remove deprecated PyObject_AsWriteBuffer (issue #495)
• ENH: Added pyproj.crs.CRS.equals with ignore_axis_order kwarg (issue #493)
• ENH: Added pyproj.crs.CoordinateSystem.from_json, pyproj.crs.CoordinateSystem.from_json_dict, and pyproj.crs.CoordinateSystem.from_string (pull #501)
• ENH: Added pyproj.crs.CoordinateSystem to pyproj.crs namespace (pull #501)
• ENH: Added pyproj.crs.CoordinateSystem.from_user_input, pyproj.crs.CoordinateOperation.from_user_input, pyproj.crs.Datum.from_user_input, pyproj.crs.PrimeMeridian.from_user_input, pyproj.crs.Ellipsoid.from_user_input (pull #502)
• ENH: Added pyproj.crs.CoordinateSystem.from_name, pyproj.crs.CoordinateOperation.from_name, pyproj.crs.Datum.from_name, :meth:pyproj.crs.PrimeMeridian.from_name, pyproj.crs.Ellipsoid.from_name (pull #505)
• BUG: Fix getting :attr:pyproj.crs.Ellipsoid.semi_minor_metre when not computed (issue #457)
• ENH: Added support for custom CRS (issue #389)
• ENH: Added enumeration for WKT2_2019 (issue #526)
• ENH: Update from_cf/to_cf to use WKT instead of PROJ strings for internal management (issue #515)

Acknowledgements

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release! The detailed bug reports are definitely appreciated. Additionally, thanks to those who help with the distribution!

A total of 3 people contributed to the codebase in this release. People with a "+" by their names contributed a patch for the first time:

Bas Couwenberg
Eduard Popov +
Alan D. Snow

Other contributions:

Christoph Gohlke - testing the Windows wheel builds.
Bas Couwenberg - testing the builds with Debian.
David Hoese - testing of new CRS.to_cf/from_cf methods